Podemos challenges Pedro Sánchez with a direct attack on Batet and the Supreme Court

• Batet Congress abides by the ruling of the Supreme Court and removes the seat from deputy Alberto Rodríguez and Podemos will sue her for prevarication

• Courts Marchena explains to Batet that the disqualification of Alberto Rodríguez is mandatory

United We can opened an institutional crisis this Friday by questioning the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet, for executing the Supreme Court ruling against deputy Alberto Rodríguez and, consequently, withdrawing his seat. The

accused Batet of giving in to the "pressure" of the Supreme Court - whom they pointed to for "pressuring" Congress - and the "extreme right" and announced a lawsuit against the president of the Lower House for prevarication.

Shortly after, the CGPJ harshly criticized the attack on this issue by the Minister of Social Rights and

leader

, Ione Belarra, who accused the Supreme Court of "pressuring" the

: The crime against its magistrates absolutely exceeds the limits of the right to freedom of expression, especially when the person carrying out these demonstrations is a member of the Executive Power, ”said the CGPJ in a statement.

The attitude of Podemos was censured, in addition, by his partner in the Executive.

From the PSOE, after hearing these facts, Batet was defended and it was stressed that in Spain there is judicial independence: "The sentences can be appealed but cannot be breached," said socialist sources before highlighting the "scrupulous compliance" that Batet made of their duty.

Much more forceful towards the position adopted by Podemos was the PP.

Its president, Pablo Casado, directly asked Pero Sánchez for the "immediate" dismissal of Belarra for accusing the Supreme Court of "committing a crime."

"In any serious government, a minister who accuses the Supreme Court of committing a crime would be immediately dismissed," said Casado, who disfigured "the attack on justice and institutions" by "the radical partners" of Sánchez and his ministers.

"It is intolerable. If you do not act, you will become an accomplice of them," he added.

Withdrawal of the seat

The political earthquake occurred after the president of the

of the Supreme Court, Manuel Marchena, took less than 24 hours to respond to the president of Congress confirming his obligation to comply with the disqualification of Alberto Rodríguez and less than five hours Later, Meritxell Batet communicated to the deputy of United We Can the withdrawal of his seat as required by the sentence handed down against him for having kicked a policeman seven years ago in the course of a demonstration.

This morning, Marchena explained by official letter to the president of Congress that the accessory penalty of disqualification is mandatory as provided in

of the

, and also recalled in his letter that the defense of the purple deputy already requested him a clarification of the sentence and, to this request, it was answered insisting that it is clear and entails the withdrawal of the seat.

Consequently, the only possible way out of the Alberto Rodríguez case and the near confrontation between Congress and the Supreme Court, was for the president of the Chamber to execute the sentence of the high court in the shortest possible time and proceed to the Withdrawal of the act to the Podemos deputy, although this would imply immediately opening a war front with the minor partner party of the Government coalition.

Batet complied in a timely manner knowing that the responsibility fell exclusively on her and disobeying could have serious consequences that ranged from a lawsuit for contempt to one for prevarication, as well as running the risk of being subject to a process of disapproval in Congress and even disqualification in court.

Thus, the third authority of the State proceeded to personally communicate to Alberto Rodríguez the office of the president of the Supreme Court confirming all the extremes of the sentence handed down against him and that entails "the loss of his status as a deputy", as well as the order by the that its execution is arranged.

Complaint for trespass

Batet also transferred the office to the

, the highest and permanent organ of the electoral administration, for the purposes of the timely replacement of the deputy, and to the

.

Likewise, the president of the Chamber sent an official letter to the Supreme Court, transferring a copy of all these communications and so that, as Marchena claimed, the computation of compliance with the disqualification penalty can begin.

The president's decision immediately aroused the ire of United We Can.

Not only of deputies and the like, but also of those who sit in the

in an unusual reaction of radical confrontation with the Supreme Court and with the presidency of the Lower House itself.

The purple formation accused both institutions of committing a crime of "prevarication."

That is, knowingly making an unfair decision that is contrary to the law.

In fact, late in the afternoon, sources from the formation confirmed to this newspaper that they will file a lawsuit against Batet for prevarication: “The decision he has taken yielding to the shameful pressure of the Supreme Court and the extreme right does enormous damage to democracy. and to our country, "they said.

The CGPJ criticizes that Belarra "exceeds all limits" from the Government

The

of the CGPJ Council reproached the Minister of Social Rights and leader of Podemos, Ione Belarra, at the last minute of this Friday, a message on social networks where he questioned the conviction of the Supreme Court against Alberto Rodríguez and the subsequent withdrawal of the seat by decision from the President of Congress, Meritxell Batet. In a statement, the governing body of the judges showed its "absolute and resounding rejection" of Belarra's demonstrations "more emphatically than on other occasions" because they attribute "the commission of a crime to its magistrates", a statement that, In his opinion, "it absolutely exceeds the limits of the right to freedom of expression" in addition to "generating an unacceptable suspicion regarding the conduct of the highest court of the Nation," they affirm.

The CGPJ recalls that Belarra is "a member of

" so this type of statement places "the relations between two powers of the State on a completely undesirable plane."

The minister described the removal of Rodríguez from his seat on Twitter as "prevarication," and accused the Supreme Court of pressuring Meritxell Batet to remove him despite the fact that "they both know" that this disqualification is not what the sentence says.

The Council expresses "its deep discomfort" that the statements "have been made by a member of the Government" and defends that the Supreme Court and the rest of the courts "have given ample proof of their independence, impartiality and objectivity" regardless of which "they may be. the political or social position of the accused ”.

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